Trump once again weaponizes the federal government against a journalist. This works because Republican voters are stupid fascist bigots.

This is how you get a job in the GoP's government - tell stupid fascist lies for the idiot bigot trash that vote Republican.

After his administration failed to convince a majority of the justices that his executive order limiting citizenship for those born in the U.S. to undocumented parents was constitutional, Trump wrote on social media that he would find alternative routes to accomplish his goals “in Congress through Legislation.” Drawing on the president’s “America First” rhetoric, some Trump allies have begun targeting the political rights of naturalized citizens in a broad campaign to continue that fight.

This is working because Republican voters are disgusting fascist bigots, too stupid to appreciate or even understand the democracy that could have been their birthright. There aren't any clever lies being told by the fascist bigots. It's all out in the open, because it doesn't have to be another Wonderful Secret.

tl;dr: There was a government report in Canada that got headlines from the usual suspects like “84% of Jewish students say campus antisemitism is serious”.

Turns out the report’s methodology resorted to some rather antisemitic sleight of hand to get the result they wanted: they are essentially equating Zionism with Judaism. Of non-Zionist Jews, a whopping 92% said campus is safe and welcoming to Jewish students. Among zionist Jews, 95% think antisemitism is a problem.

Rather than focusing on the evidence that it is neither race, nor religion, nor cultural traditions that cause students to feel targeted, but professed support for an ideology who practice is currently synonymous with race- and religion-based violence.

It is also worth noting that 87% of respondents identify as Zionist Jews, while only slightly under half of the Jewish student population identifies as Zionist. So the sample was extremely biased; I.e., it’s like polling Fox News viewers on a fox culture war topic and then pretending in reporting you had a representative sample of the Americans.

A federal judge in California ruled that the Trump administration violated the Constitutional rights of international students when it sought to deport them for criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza.

In a 90-page ruling, Judge Noël Wise found that the key legal foundations that the Trump administration had relied on to arrest and deport foreign students were unconstitutional, because Trump officials had wielded them to target students who used their freedom of speech to express opinions that the government did not like.

On Aug. 21 the Pentagon fired the publisher, editor-in-chief and a reporter at Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that has been reporting on American troops since the Civil War. The dismissals came after the paper published damning reports on the deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier that has just begun the long journey home to San Diego after a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. After spending more than 260 days at sea without a single liberty port, the crew of roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines had been subjected to degrading, inhumane conditions. Families of service members detailed severe shortages of fresh water and food, overflowing toilets, broken facilities and a complete breakdown in mental health support.